https://www.dropbox....YSTERY.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox....YSTERY.jpg?dl=0
Photos via: The GP Library (but what are the cars?)
DCN
Edited by Doug Nye, 30 October 2014 - 22:02.
Posted 30 October 2014 - 21:55
https://www.dropbox....YSTERY.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox....YSTERY.jpg?dl=0
Photos via: The GP Library (but what are the cars?)
DCN
Edited by Doug Nye, 30 October 2014 - 22:02.
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Posted 30 October 2014 - 22:01
Posted 30 October 2014 - 22:26
The rear axle on pic 1 looks maybe Vanguard? front is a very small 5 stud PCD so what uses about 5x4" or so?
Looks like a Daimler V8 badge on the nose. Is it? Almost certainly a V8 by bonnet design.
Second pic,,, hoo boy 120" wheelbase?. Very long. It must have a very long engine. Might be ok on very high speed corners but not on the twisty stuff.
Edited by Lee Nicolle, 30 October 2014 - 22:28.
Posted 30 October 2014 - 23:44
Isn't the second one the Gilbert HRG-Maserati?
I remember the car at Eight Clubs Silverstone race meetings in the late 1970s by which time it was Singer-engined like other HRGs
Quote:
In 1949 a well known early BBC presenter,Mr John Gilbert, commissioned HRG to build his "dream" sports/racing car. HRG based the car on an extended wheelbase version of their standard 1500 chassis. Gilbert supplied the engine, a pre war 1100 Maserati straight eight. HRG Chief Mechanic, Fred Mead constructed the body in the style of the latest Maserati A6GCS sport/racer.
Eventually Gilbert's son Christopher inherited the car and replaced the engine, first with a Ford unit and then a 1500 Singer OHC engine in an effort to obtain more power.
Posted 31 October 2014 - 05:31
/http://carfuture.net/1949-hrg-1500/
Found this on line and it sure is not the same car as pic no 2.....
Posted 31 October 2014 - 08:00
This is the HRG I'm referring to (seen at Silverstone, probably at Eight Clubs, in the 1970s):
Edited by Allan Lupton, 31 October 2014 - 08:01.
Posted 31 October 2014 - 11:30
The first one is the Swedish Nobe Sport built by Gustav Nobelius. It was equipped with a V8 Engine ( a sidevalve Ford?) with eight (!) individual carburettors.
Posted 31 October 2014 - 12:19
A much-modified car, it appears! Somewhere under that body there's a little bit of BMW and quite a lot of various Fords ...
http://www.kustomram...x.php?title=GB1
Doc knutsen and Tomas Karlsson discussed it last year, starting from here:
http://forums.autosp...r/#entry6446712